The 3 Areas of Training…
As I continue my daily exploration of Stoic insights from individuals such as the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, the philosopher Epictetus and Zeno the merchant, it’s time to take a few minutes to reflect on 3 areas in which the person who would be wise must be trained…
1. The first area has to do with desires and aversions.
It is important to pay attention and reflect upon what you desire and what you are averse to. Why? Desires and temptations have a long reputation of often leading people astray. Examining your desires and aversions allow you to get insights into your real nature…
Being curious about your desires and aversions. They represent a very valuable self-analysis exercise that can lead to a deeper understanding of who you truly are – your core identity.
Not only that, but it can also – once you are really clear on what pulls you toward and what pushes you away – give you means to mitigate and manage those desires and aversions. You can gain a new degree of control and choice on your behaviour and how you react to your external environment.
2. The second area of training relates to the impulses to act – that is, your motivations.
Knowing “Why” you are driven to do something is crucial.
- Are you doing things for the “right reasons”?
- Or do you act because you haven’t taken the time to stop & think and evaluate/analyse the situation?
- Or do you believe that you have to do something?
- Are your impulses to act coming from deep inside of yourself (an inspiration) or are they more originating from the subordination to some external authority or ideal?
- Are you acting in a measured way or in an extreme one?
- Is acting right now appropriate or maladaptive?
Slowing down, pausing for a moment, and reflecting on your impulses to act can prevent you from getting into serious troubles, having to deal with future regrets or simply taking a more appropriate course of action.
3. The third area of training has to do with judgment.
Your ability to see things clearly and properly comes when you use your great gift of reason. Judgment often occurs in the blink of an eye, whether we are aware of it or not… Taking the time to reflect on the judgments you make from minute to minute can provide you with important information. Especially seeing whether the judgment was made based on the whole “picture” or only a very small and narrow view of the situation.
Doing what you can to shift your perspective and adopt new perspectives can help you make more educated and measured judgments rather than hasty ones.
Ultimately, these 3 distinct areas of training are in practice inextricably intertwined.
Our judgments affect what we desire, our desires affect how we act, just as our judgment determines how we act. Being able to slow down, pause and analyse the different areas of this cycle is not an easy task. Often operating at the subconscious levels, we rarely notice it…
Therefore, when we put real thoughts and energy into these three areas of training, we can find real clarity and success…
In Nutshell:
Epictetus suggested in his “Discourses” the need to train 3 areas of life: (1) desires and aversion, (2) impulses to act, and (3) our judgment. Because judgments affect desire, desires affect action, and judgments also determine actions. Being able to slow down, pause and analyze these 3 areas of training by putting real thoughts and energy, provide us with real clarity, more choices, and success.
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